Additional comment: When I see a welded object I stand in awe of the artist because it's a handycraft I can't do. I'll look at it differently from now on knowing that the actual work was maybe done by someone different.
I think it depends on the artist - there's a chap called Duncan Thurlby who I much admire, and I'm pretty sure he does his own welding, but it seems not everybody does...
I suspect the tradition has carried on a lot more than people realise, it's just that in the fresco painting days it was something everybody involved knew about so nobody thought twice about it...
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I suspect the tradition has carried on a lot more than people realise, it's just that in the fresco painting days it was something everybody involved knew about so nobody thought twice about it...